August 2024
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Class 1

Intro: course, alphabet, language.
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Class 2

Introducing finite automata and JFLAP.
Bring laptop to class!
activity
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Extra 1

Set Theory I
sets activity
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Class 3

Complement, instersect machines with diagrams
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Class 4

Towards defining "DFA"
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Class 5

A formal definition of a DFA
functions activity
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Extra 2

Python: the interpreter
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Class 6

Functions and Formal Algorithms
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September 2024
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Labor Day
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Class 7

Algorithms on machines
activity
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Class 8

More algorithms on machines
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Extra 3

Python: list, tuple, set, dictionary
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Class 9

Configurations and a formal def of accept/reject
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Class 10

Finishing configurations and started NDFAs
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Class 11

Constructing NDFAs & formal definition of NDFAs
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Extra 4

Python: objects, Objects & basic types
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Class 12

More algorithms for NDFAs
activity
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Class 13

Reprising Proof & Algorithm
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Class 14

Converting NDFAs to DFAs
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Extra 5

Python: Dynamic typing
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Class 15

Converting NDFAs to DFAs II
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Class 16

Intro to Regular Expressions
Academic Reserve
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Academic Reserve
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PreExam Review
Academic Reserve
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Extra 6

Python: regular expressions
Academic Reserve
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6Wk Exam
Academic Reserve
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Exam Debrief
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RE->FA Intro
Review Union, Concatenation and Kleene Star algorithms for NDFAs (Class 12)
          

October 2024
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Class 17

Equivalence of REs and FAs
activity
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Extra 7

Python: comprehensions
Video Project 1 groups finalized
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Class 18

Pumping Lemma I
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Class 19

Pumping Lemma II
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Class 20

Pumping Lemma Reprise
activity
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Extra 8

Python: OOP in Python
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Class 21

State Minimization
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Columbus Day
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Video Project 1 one video due COB
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Class 22

Introduction to Context Free Grammars
activity
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Extra 9

Python: exceptions and the role of exceptions in Python
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Class 23

Parse Trees & Ambiguity
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Class 24

Algorithms for CFGs
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Video Project 1 all due 2359
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Viewing Project Videos
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Extra 10

Python: iterators underly everything
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Class 25

Pushdown Automata
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Class 26

Converting Grammars to PDAs
Academic Reserve
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Class 27

More on Parsing
activity
Academic Reserve
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Extra 11

Python: playing with DFAs
Academic Reserve
    

November 2024
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12Wk Exam
Academic Reserve
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Class 28

A Pumping Lemma for CFGs
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Exam Debrief
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Extra 12

Set Theory II: Sizes of infinity
activity
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Class 29

More on what's not a CFL
activity
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Veteran's Day
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Class 30

Introduction to Turing Machines
activity
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Extra 13

Python: revisiting import, modules, packages
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Class 31

A formal definition of a Turing Machine
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Class 32

Configurations and completing our formal definition
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Class 33

What if we did FAs differently?
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Extra 14

Python: keyword arguments, default arguments, positional arguments
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Class 34

Equivalence of different TMs, Part I
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Class 35

Equivalence of different TMs Part II
Transducers Project 2 Milestone 1 due
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Crazy Travel Day
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Thanksgiving
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Digestion Day
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December 2024
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Class 36

The Chuch-Turing Thesis & Encoding TMs
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Class 37

Universal TMs
Transducers Project 2 Milestone 2 due
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Extra 15

Python: I/O
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Class 38

The Halting Problem
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Class 39

Conclusion
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Study Day
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Final Exam 1300
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